Ion Nitriding With Post Oxidation

Plasma nitriding is the technological peak of the nitriding procedure and provides considerable advantages as compared to the salt bath and gas nitriding. Since plasma nitriding is normally performed at lower treat­ment temperatures, it is the heat treatment with the lowest risk of deformation. Due to the large variability of the process control, the steel charac­ter­istics, the customer demands and the restrictions posed by the re­spective pre-treatment can be con­sidered during plasma nit­riding in a very good manner. The nitriding cast depth, the surface hardness and the compound layer thickness can be well achieved over a broad range of the steels.